HAPPY VALLEY -- Hippie clothes: Nearly 50 years of making women look pretty good and men look awfully ridiculous.

I.

"We're going to do a cocaine song, if you're not awake yet." -- Portland's Water Tower Bucket Boys kicking off day two.

II.

"Since you liked that so much, we're going to continue with the second cocaine song of the morning." -- the Water Tower Bucket Boys, again.

III.

Day 2: new bands, more sets from old favorites from Friday. Hard to believe, but the Fruit Bats' Eric D. Johnson might be the first performer to connect the Woods Stage to the forest moon of Endor.

"C'mon, Ewoks!" he said, urging movement from the people tucked beside trees and swinging in hammocks and piled up the hill on hay bales.

This is the year Pickathon got noticeably bigger. Friday was a Saturday crowd. Saturday had to be the biggest Saturday crowd in the festival's history. If they max out this year, there will be 3,500 paid and possibly another 2,000 volunteers.

What the festival isn't is noticeably more difficult because of the crowd. The Galaxy Barn filled up Saturday night, but it always does that. The Woods Stage was crowded, but that's happened too. Lines remained manageable, and bathrooms as reasonable as you could hope for a Honey Bucket.

IV.

"Do you guys realize how good this is?" -- Elliott Brood singer Mark Sasso, turning the festival compliment back on the audience. Flipping the script, if you're the type of person who says such things.

V.

"It's kind of a pain, but I appreciate the spirit of what they're trying to do."

At one stand on Sunday morning, workers were busy not only preparing food, and figuring out who gets what, but what goes on whose plate. The token system, powered by Go Box, is quite easy and no hassle at all.

Pickathon music festival in Happy Valley, OregonPickathon is a Indie-Roots Music festival. More than 35 bands on 5 stages perform for thousands of festival goers. Camping, hiking, and music are are situated on the 80-acre Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Ore.

VI.

Charlie Parr must be what Delta Blues sounds like at the North end of the Mississippi River. Snowdrift blues? He's from Duluth, Minn. -- where the blues goes to freeze, only to be warmed up and brought back to life in front of a hardwood stove.

In the Galaxy Barn, the stage emcee noted that his website didn't have a bio, and when she emailed him, he sent back an apologetic note explaining that his site was maintained by an organic chicken farmer in Brainerd, Minn., and it was his busy season.

So, yeah.

VII.

Now, another new episode of drinking with Whitey Morgan: No, of course that wasn't just Gatorade in his Gatorade bottle.

"This is what we call a hillbilly margarita," said Morgan, mid-way through a Galaxy Barn set of authentic, old-school, honky tonkin'.

The recipe: Gatorade and tequila.

You're on your own for the mix.

As for Morgan and his band the 78s, they were so good I wanted throw a beer bottle at chicken wire. Unfortunately, this is Portland and the only option then is to throw a beer bottle at a neighborhood chicken coop, and that'd be mean, right?

VIII.

The Sadies remain one of the great bands on this or any other continent, and they're as polite as they are good.

"We're ready to begin," Dallas Good said after some sound-related delays. "I hope you enjoy the show."